Teorema Blu-ray

With Teorema, a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown. Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family (including European cinema icons Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, and Anne Wiazemsky), precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
 
Film Info
 
Italy 
1968
98 minutes
Color
1.85:1
Italian 
Spine #1013
 
Special Features
 
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack featuring the voices of actor Terence Stamp and others
Audio commentary from 2007 featuring Robert S. C. Gordon, author of Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity
Introduction by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1969
Interview from 2007 with Stamp
New interview with John David Rhodes, author of Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by film scholar James Quandt